Investing In Europe

Through our offices in London and Berlin, we invest in pan-European industrial and logistics assets with a broad risk/return profile. Our seasoned team has executed over $3B in transactions in the last five years.

Capitalizing on the undersupplied European industrial market, our Clarion Gramercy platform acquires, develops, and manages institutional quality properties in key logistics locations throughout Western Europe. We focus on Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain, yet maintain an active investment pipeline covering many additional European countries.

The team leverages the deep relationships built with some of Europe’s leading businesses and expects ongoing demand from a range of tenants that span Europe and the U.S., fueled by the growth in ecommerce and expanded trade.

Primary investment strategies include acquiring assets
subject to existing long-term leases and selectively pursuing both
build-to-suit as well as more speculative developments.

Alistair Calvert

CEO, Clarion Gramercy

Mr. Calvert is CEO of Clarion Gramercy, which was originally ThreadGreen Europe. Mr. Calvert established the ThreadGreen business in 2006, launching its first fund in 2007, and subsequently selling the business to Gramercy Property Trust in December 2014. Simultaneously with Gramercy Property Trust being acquired by Blackstone in October 2018, Gramercy Europe became an independent fund manager through a management buyout from Blackstone. Under Mr. Calvert’s leadership, Gramercy Europe has transacted on more than £2.2 billion of logistics and light industrial property in the past 4 years.

Education

Rory Buck

Senior Director, Clarion Gramercy

Mr. Buck is a Senior Director at Clarion Gramercy focusing on investments. He previously worked on the investment team at the UK opportunistic real estate fund Brockton Capital where he split his time between acquisitions and asset management activities. Before Brockton, Mr. Buck worked as an investment professional for Doughty Hanson Real Estate (DHRE), the pan-European opportunistic real estate investor.​